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How hard is it to tell if a given genetic correlation is directly causal, indirectly causal (e.g. regulatory or something), or just a sign of common ancestral exposures producing common transgenerational effects on phenotype? What methods are used?

razibkhan

can you elaborate? are you talking about correlation between alleles or between alleles and traits?

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Any correlation found between sequenceable genetic material and phenotype (e.g. an allele, a deletion/duplication, etc.).

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